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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the Phillis Wheatley Community Center in Greenville, S.C. on Monday, June 14, 2021, about the importance for everyone to get vaccinated for COVID-19. (John A. Carlos II/The Post And Courier via AP)
Coronavirus| 2h agoVice President Harris visits Georgia today to urge COVID-19 vaccinations
Residents at Canterbury Court including Marguerite Wellborn and her husband Marshall Wellborn, from left, finish up their lunch with Greg and Nancy Fukushima at the long-term facility’s cafeteria Wednesday, June 16, 2021. Residents were quarantined to their rooms with all meals delivered at the height of Covid and now staff is 100% fully vaccinated and residents go without masks; while staff, despite full vaccination, continues to wear masks while they are at work at the facility. Activity calendars are posted and social events, including Father’s Day visits are happening at the retirement facility. (Jenni Girtman for The Atlanta Journal Constitution)
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President Joe Biden signs the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, in the East Room of the White House, on Thursday in Washington. Some metro Atlanta employers have already made Juneteenth a paid holiday for their employees. Others have not and don't expect to do so at least this year. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Cobb County School Board members on Thursday gave final approval to the fiscal year 2022 budget. Credit: screenshot of Cobb County Board of Education June 17, 2021, budget hearing.
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Fulton County Schools will ask voters in November to renew a one-cent sales tax to pay for technology and building upgrades. ALYSSA POINTER/AJC FILE PHOTO
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Kem Fleming (left) and George Scarborough talk during a meeting of the Bridge the Gap Christian Men’s Fellowship Group on Monday evening June 14, 2021, in Alpharetta. (Ben Gray for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
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Georgia cities with less than 50,000 residents are poised to receive a combined total of $861.8 million in federal relief funds from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Cities in metro Atlanta, including Powder Springs, are now trying to figure out how they'll use the money. (Rebecca Wright for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
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Gwinnett County Sheriff Keybo Taylor, pictured as a candidate at a get-out-the-vote rally, said he canceled a bond company's ability to operate in the county because of dishonesty regarding a GBI investigation and not a failed extortion attempt. (Rebecca Wright for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution) AJC FILE PHOTO
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FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, file photo, Democrat Stacey Abrams speaks before members of Georgia's Electoral College cast their votes at the state Capitol, in Atlanta. Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Abrams, a leading national voice on ballot access, will deliver the keynote address at an event commemorating the 100-year anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, officials announced Wednesday, May 19, 2021. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, Pool, File)
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U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Rome, apologized this past week for making a comparison in May between coronavirus restrictions and the Holocaust. “I should own it," she said. "I made a mistake.”
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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the Phillis Wheatley Community Center in Greenville, S.C. on Monday, June 14, 2021, about the importance for everyone to get vaccinated for COVID-19. (John A. Carlos II/The Post And Courier via AP)
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FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
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Members of the Capitol Police pay respects to the remains of U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick as he lies in honor in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in February. Sicknick died after being injured in the Jan. 6 attack by rioters supporting then-President Donald Trump. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)
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Kennesaw State University Nursing Student Julia Taylor prepares a single does of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for a patient at a drive thru vaccination in the outdoor arena at Jim Miller Park in Marietta on Feb. 3, 2021. Gwinnett County Public Schools and the Gwinnett, Newton, Rockdale Health Departments are partnering to offer COVID-19, meningitis and Tdap vaccines to students and families. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)
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